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On the (In)Effectiveness of Some Commonly Proposed Anti-Corruption Reforms [PDF]
Using a theoretical model of two-candidate political competition under probabilistic voting, I study the effectiveness of the following anti-corruption reforms: (i) higher wages for politicians, (ii) higher penalties for political corruption, and (iii ...
Evrenk, Haldun
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Illegal gold mining has emerged as a major sustainability threat in the Amazon, eroding Indigenous rights, forest integrity, and climate mitigation efforts. This study examines how international market incentives relate to the expansion of illegal mining and associated deforestation within the Yanomami Indigenous Territory (YIT) from 2008 to ...
Shirléia Lago Santos +2 more
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Constitution of the United States: Mutation of the Constitutional Text
Revista Facultad de Jurisprudencia, 2017 The article briefly explains the theory of a constitutional mutation, and the difference between it and a constitutional reform or a constitutional amendment.
Francisco López Rueda
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Immigration, Criminalization, and Disobedience [PDF]
, 2016 This symposium essay explores two contending visions of immigration justice: one focused on expanding procedural rights for immigrants, and a second associated with a movement of immigrant youth who have come out en masse as “undocumented and unafraid ...
McLeod, Allegra M.
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate change is one of the most profound ethical and existential challenges of the 21st century. Beyond its physical, economic, and environmental consequences, it raises fundamental moral questions about justice, equity, responsibility, and the right to a livable planet.
Jacob Kwakye
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The Frailty of Economic Reforms: Political Logic and Constitutional Lessons [PDF]
Why are efficiency-enhancing reforms often frail and subject to being undermined over time? Two theories are examined: public-choice theory, which explains this as the possible result of a need, from time to time, to wipe the slate clean in order to ...
Berggren, Niclas
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The politics of the transformation of policing [PDF]
, 2010 The politics of policing transformation in Northern Ireland, the nature and timing of the Agreements that created the the atmosphere for such transformation, and the difficulty in reaching them, are clear evidence that policing powers and structures are ...
Doyle, John
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Small, EarlyView.Switchable or transient formation and dissociation of the phase‐separated DNA microdroplets generated by metal ions or aptamer‐ligand complexes crosslinking Y‐shaped DNA frameworks and dynamically separated by counter ligands eliminating the bridging metal ions or biocatalysts degrading the aptamer‐ligand complexes, are introduced.
Yichen Han +6 more
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Political Constraints and Public Support for Market Reform [PDF]
As concerns of "reform fatigue" in lower- and middle-income countries have become more widespread, so has the search for ways of boosting support for market-oriented reforms.
Anders Olofsg�rd, Raj M. Desai
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Reformasi Konstitusi dalam Transisi Menuju Demokrasi [PDF]
, 2000 Constitutional reform is one of the most important ways undertaken by some transitional regime to establish a democratic government. This kind of reform has many models. In Spain i t is called reforma pactada-ruptura pactada involving "negotiation" among
Lay, C. (Cornelis) +1 more
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